A Multi Resolution Discontinuous Galerkin Method For Unsteady Compressible Flows

The issue of local scale and smoothness presents a crucial and daunting challenge for numerical simulation methods in fluid dynamics. Yet in the interests of both accuracy and economy, how can one devise a general technique that efficiently resolves flow features of consequence and discriminates against others which are either ``negligible' or amenable to ``universal' modeling? This is particularly difficult because geometries of engineering interest are complex and multi-dimensional, precluding a priori knowledge of the flowfield. To address this challenge, the current work employs wavelet theory for the local scale decomposition of functions, which provides a natural mechanism for the adaptive compression of data. The resulting technique is known as the Multi-Resolution Discontinuous Galerkin (MRDG) method.